Starter
Start-ups and freelancers with light activity
AED399*/ month
- Up to 40 transactions a month
- 1 bank account reconciled monthly
- Quarterly P&L and balance sheet
- Email support within one business day
Bookkeeping & accounting
Bookkeeping and accounting services in Dubai — clean books, every month.
Monthly bookkeeping, bank reconciliations and management reports — kept on cloud software and always ready for VAT, Corporate Tax and your auditor.
Monthly bookkeeping
Sales, purchases, expenses and payroll recorded and categorised to a chart of accounts built for UAE tax.
Bank reconciliation
Every bank and card account reconciled each month, with unexplained items raised with you, not buried.
Management reporting
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow — delivered monthly or quarterly depending on your plan.
Cloud-based books
Kept on Zoho Books, Odoo, QuickBooks or Xero and connected to your bank feeds, so your records are always current. Starting fresh? See our Zoho Books and Odoo set-up.
Catch-up bookkeeping
Behind on your books? We bring backlog months up to date before moving you onto a monthly plan. Catch-up bookkeeping →
Year-end & IFRS accounts
Year-end close, IFRS financial statements and a clean audit trail for your auditor and your CT return.
How a month of bookkeeping works
- You share the month's documents — bank statements (or a live bank feed), sales invoices and purchase bills, uploaded through our client portal.
- We record and code every transaction to a chart of accounts set up for UAE VAT and Corporate Tax, with the VAT treatment on each line.
- We reconcile every bank and card account to the statements, and send you one short list of queries instead of a stream of emails.
- You receive your reports — profit and loss and balance sheet, monthly or quarterly depending on your plan, with receivables and payables where included.
Why monthly books matter for VAT and Corporate Tax
UAE Corporate Tax starts from accounting profit in financial statements prepared under accepted accounting standards, and every VAT return is prepared from the books. When the books are kept monthly, the VAT return comes straight from the ledger each quarter and the Corporate Tax return is built on figures that have already been reconciled — rather than reconstructed months later, when the deadline is close and documents are harder to find.
Who we keep books for
- Mainland and free zone companies across the UAE — including IFZA, DMCC, Meydan, RAKEZ, SHAMS and the Ajman free zones, and companies in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
- Owners who live abroad — the books are kept remotely, with a monthly report pack. See owners in the UK, Singapore and Russia.
- Specialist businesses — e-commerce, gold and jewellery, crypto and consultancy and IT.
What's included at each level and what drives the price is set out in Monthly bookkeeping in the UAE: what's included and what it costs.
Bookkeeping packages
Monthly bookkeeping on cloud software, reconciled to the bank and ready for VAT and Corporate Tax.
Growth
Trading and service SMEs with steady volumes
AED799*/ month
- Up to 120 transactions a month
- Up to 3 bank / card accounts
- Monthly management accounts
- Receivables and payables tracking
- Payroll and WPS journal entries
- Quarterly review call with your accountant
Premium
Growing companies with multiple accounts or currencies
AED1,499*/ month
- Up to 350 transactions a month
- Multi-currency and multiple bank accounts
- Monthly MIS pack with cash-flow statement
- Inventory and fixed-asset registers
- Year-end close and audit support
Over 350 transactions a month? Ask for a custom quote.
Bookkeeping FAQs
Why do my books matter for Corporate Tax?
Your Corporate Tax return starts from accounting profit prepared under accepted accounting standards. Accurate monthly books make the return faster, cheaper and defensible if the FTA asks questions.
What counts as a transaction?
Each bank or card line, sales invoice or purchase bill we record. Most small businesses fall between 30 and 150 a month.
What do you need from me each month?
Bank statements (or a live bank feed), sales invoices and purchase bills. We send a short list of queries after each month-end.
Can you prepare my financial statements for the auditor?
Yes. Premium includes year-end close and audit support, and IFRS financial statements are available as an add-on for any plan.
Do I keep access to my accounting software and data?
Yes. The books are kept in your own cloud accounting system, so you keep your own log-in and your data stays with you.
Do you keep books for free zone companies?
Yes. For free zone companies we tag income as qualifying or non-qualifying from the first entry, so the 0% Corporate Tax test can be run on the actual revenue split at year end.
How long must the records be kept?
Generally seven years after the end of the tax period for Corporate Tax and at least five years for VAT. Books kept monthly in a cloud system, with the source documents attached, meet this without a separate archive.
Books behind? Let's get them current.
Tell us your software and last reconciled month — we'll quote catch-up and monthly fees together.
* Our fixed fees apply to businesses with annual revenue up to AED 3 million; above that, we prepare a custom quote. They do not apply to businesses dealing in digital currencies (crypto or other virtual assets), which are quoted separately.